Mastodon has more monthly active users than the entire rest of the Fediverse combined. There are lots of people for whom the Fediverse equals Mastodon. Most of the time, when someone hears about the Fediverse for the first time, it’s explained to them as only Mastodon, allegedly because that’s easier to understand. And there are vastly more people who have heard of Mastodon, but not the Fediverse, than who have heard of any other Fediverse software, but not the Fediverse.
There are tons of phone apps made for Mastodon and only Mastodon. There are websites that have “Fedi” in their name, but that are built hard against only Mastodon, and if they’re compatible with anything else, it’s by chance. diaspora* (remember 2010 when those four kids announced a free, open-source, decentralised “Facebook killer”, asked for $12,000 of crowdfunding and got over $200,000) refuses to join the Fediverse because, according to one dev, Fediverse developers don’t “implement ActivityPub”, they “implement Mastodon”.
Lots of people say that claiming that Mastodon is the Fediverse is justified.
Mastodon. Hands down.
Mastodon has more monthly active users than the entire rest of the Fediverse combined. There are lots of people for whom the Fediverse equals Mastodon. Most of the time, when someone hears about the Fediverse for the first time, it’s explained to them as only Mastodon, allegedly because that’s easier to understand. And there are vastly more people who have heard of Mastodon, but not the Fediverse, than who have heard of any other Fediverse software, but not the Fediverse.
There are tons of phone apps made for Mastodon and only Mastodon. There are websites that have “Fedi” in their name, but that are built hard against only Mastodon, and if they’re compatible with anything else, it’s by chance. diaspora* (remember 2010 when those four kids announced a free, open-source, decentralised “Facebook killer”, asked for $12,000 of crowdfunding and got over $200,000) refuses to join the Fediverse because, according to one dev, Fediverse developers don’t “implement ActivityPub”, they “implement Mastodon”.
Lots of people say that claiming that Mastodon is the Fediverse is justified.
Here are the numbers from the FediIndex: